Yes, Nhost has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes access to 1 project per organization, with free projects pausable and unpausable as needed, 1 GB database storage for the free tier, and 1 GB storage for files in the free tier.
About
Nhost is a managed backend platform centered on a PostgreSQL database, GraphQL API, authentication, storage, serverless functions, and container deployment. It provides a CLI for local development, Git-based deployments with CI/CD, and a dashboard for managing projects and services.
The free Starter plan includes 1 project, 1 GB database, 1 GB storage, 5 GB egress, functions, realtime APIs, infrastructure as code, automated deployments, unlimited users, OAuth providers, and community support. The pricing page also states that free projects can be paused after 1 week of inactivity and that a free organization can have multiple projects as long as only 1 is active at a time.
- PostgreSQL-backed backend platform
- 1 project on the free Starter plan
- 1 GB database and 1 GB storage
- 5 GB monthly egress allowance
- Functions and realtime APIs included
- Unlimited users and OAuth providers
- Git-based deployments with CI/CD
- CLI-driven local development workflow
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable for small projects: it includes one active project, 1 GB of database and file storage, 5 GB of egress, functions, auth, IaC, and deployments, and the page says no credit card is required. Compared with the $25/month Pro plan, that’s roughly a small slice of the paid offering, so about $4/month is a fair buyer-facing estimate of its monthly value.
What's included in the free tier
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- Access to 1 project per organization, with free projects pausable and unpausable as needed.
- 1 GB database storage for the free tier.
- 1 GB storage for files in the free tier.
- 5 GB network egress included.
- Functions included, with up to 10 functions and 1 GB-hours of execution.
- Unlimited users in authentication.
- Social OAuth providers included for sign-in.
- Community support included.
- IaC support for managing infrastructure as code.
- Automated deployments included.
See Nhost pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Pro
- database
- 10 GB included
- storage
- 50 GB included
- egress
- 50 GB included
- functions
- 50 included
- execution
- 10 GB-hours included
- execution time
- 180 sec
- Everything in Starter plus
- Automated backups
- Point in time recovery
- Bring your own services
- Managed Grafana (Metrics & Alerting)
- Email support
- Addons (AI toolkit, custom domains, etc)
Team
- database
- 10 GB included
- storage
- 50 GB included
- egress
- 50 GB included
- functions
- 50 included
- execution
- 10 GB-hours included
- execution time
- 600 sec
- Everything in Pro plus
- SOC 2 Type II
- Email support SLA
- Dedicated discord channel
- Connect to external databases
- Advanced GraphQL features
- HIPAA (coming soon)
Enterprise
- database
- Custom
- storage
- Custom
- egress
- Custom
- functions
- Custom
- execution
- Custom
- execution time
- Custom
- Everything in Team plus
- SLAs
- Dedicated technical account manager
- Dedicated clusters (add-on)
Pricing extracted from Nhost's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Nhost free forever?
Yes. Nhost has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
Does Nhost require a credit card?
No. You can start on Nhost's free tier without entering card details.
What happens when you exceed Nhost's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Nhost's cheapest paid plan is Pro at $25 / month.
What is Nhost's free tier worth?
Nhost's free tier is worth about $4.00 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 55/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
